Efficacy and safety of home-based transcranial direct current stimulation as adjunct treatment for cognitive improvement in major depressive disorder: A double-blind, randomized, m... by CW Lee, K Park, JE Ahn, Y Jang, YS Park, H Yu, D Lee, HK Ihm, J Lee, J Kim, YI Lee, S-E Lim, SS Kwon, HY Park, TH Ha, I-Y Yoon, Woojae Myung, Ji Hyun Baek

“…Assessments were conducted at baseline and weeks 2, 4, and 6. The primary outcome was cognitive improvement assessed by changes in total accuracy on the 2-back test from baseline to week 6. …”
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Personalized approach in the management of women with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and carbohydrate metabolism disorders by L.R. Petrovska, I.O. Kostitska, T.R. Petrovskyy, R.V. Petrovskyy

“…According to the design of the scientific study, all patients at the beginning and after 12 weeks of therapy underwent assessment of basic anthropometric data, a set of laboratory examinations, clinical and instrumental diagnosis. …”
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FAecal micRobiota transplantation in primary sclerosinG chOlangitis (FARGO): study protocol for a randomised, multicentre, phase IIa, placebo-controlled trial by Laith Alrubaiy, Rachel Cooney, Tariq Iqbal, Mohammed Nabil Quraishi, Susan Manzoor, Christopher Quince, Palak J Trivedi, Andrew D Beggs, Alexandra Vince, Chris Weston, Benjamin Mullish, Sahida Shabir, Nicola Jackson, Anna Rowe, Victoria Homer, Willem van Schaik, Peter Rimmer, Sarah Al-Shakhshir, Arzoo Patel, Derick Gyimah, Miriam Hares, Elena Efstathiou

“…Participants will then be followed on a 12-weekly basis until week 48 from the first treatment visit. …”
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Sex disparity in the association between alcohol consumption and sarcopenia: a population-based study by Longbao Yang, Longbao Yang, Qiuju Ran, Qiuju Ran, Yee Hui Yeo, Zhang Wen, Zhang Wen, Shuyue Tuo, Shuyue Tuo, Yong Li, Yong Li, Jia Yuan, Jia Yuan, Shejiao Dai, Shejiao Dai, Jinhai Wang, Jinhai Wang, Fanpu Ji, Fanpu Ji, Fanpu Ji, Fanpu Ji, Xinxing Tantai, Xinxing Tantai

“…Alcohol exposure was defined as daily alcohol intake, alcohol drinking history, number of drinking days per week, and frequency of binge drinking days per month. …”
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Chinese herbal formula Tongxie Yaofang granules for diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II trial by Nicola Robinson, Mei Han, Ling Yan, Vincent Chi Ho Chung, Jian-Ping Liu, Hui-Juan Cao, Shi-Bing Liang, Hong-Jie Cheng, Qiao-Yan Zhang, Yu-Fei Li, Ze-Yu Yu, Ling-Yao Kong, Yan-Mei Cai, Li-Bao An, Bao-Tuan Zhao, Shan-Shan Xu, Nai-Wei Zhang, Bo-Yi Jia, Wei-Fang Liu, Fang Niu, Ba-Teer Wu, Jin-Ming Song, Shu-Xin Jia, Meng-Meng Shi, Xiao-Na Zhang

“…Secondary outcomes included stool frequency; stool consistency at weeks 4, 8 and 20; and quality of life, anxiety and depression at week 8; and safety was monitored throughout the trial.Results The TXYF and placebo groups each comprised 48 participants. …”
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Effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in male patients of fibromyalgia by Vikas Kumar Tiwari, Srishti Nanda, Suvercha Arya, Uma Kumar, Renu Bhatia

“…Minor headache was noted in the 1st week of the therapy. rTMS could be beneficial for pain relief in male patients with fibromyalgia. …”
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First Reported Case of Bacterial Endocarditis Attributable to Actinomyces meyeri by Susan Moffatt, A Raza Ahmen, Kevin Forward

“…Two anaerobic blood cultures performed two weeks apart were both positive for Actinomyces meyeri. …”
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‘Silence is the sentence’: adult learners’ experiences of a co-created curriculum constructed through free writing tasks by Howard Scott, Pete Bennett, Craig A Hammond

“…This paper outlines the pedagogical approaches taken on a University Access course, teaching predominantly mature students on a 12-week ‘inclusion in education’ module. The methods aimed to validate and develop literacy and academic skills for students undertaking undergraduate courses. …”
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The Effects of Conceptual Knowledge Goal Intervention on the Development of Poor Readers’ Reading Comprehension by Guozhong Luo, Wen Li, Bingqing Gong, Yukun Wu

“…Following the suggestion of the Simple View of Reading theory for the poor reader category, the current study recruited 90 poor decoders (PD), 76 poor comprehenders (PC), and 100 general poor readers (GPR) to be randomly divided into CKG and control conditions. After a 12-week intervention, readers who received the CKG condition performed significantly better in character reading and receptive vocabulary than control condition readers, regardless of the reader category. …”
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The Postpartum Tradition of <i>Sawa Mahina</i> in Rural Punjab, Pakistan by Azher Hameed Qamar

“…The Punjabi postpartum tradition is called sawa mahina (‘five weeks’). This study investigates infant health care belief practices in rural Punjab and looks at the social significance of infant care beliefs practiced during sawa mahina. …”
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Yersinia enterocolitica Prosthetic Joint Septic Arthritis Successfully Treated with Ceftriaxone by Hafez M. Abdullah, Mansi Oberoi, Abdelmohaymin Abdalla, Smitha Narayana Gowda, Moataz Ellithi

“…The patient underwent an exchange of her prosthetic material and was successfully treated with a six-week course of ceftriaxone. Our article aims to highlight a rare manifestation of Yersinia enterocolitica infection and to point out an important differential for reactive arthritis after Yersinia enterocolitica infection.…”
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Observing Primary School Pre-service Teachers’ Oral Argumentation in Science Writing Heuristic Implementation by Berk Gümüş, Mehmet Şen

“…Accordingly, PSTs were observed throughout the implementation and the ASAC protocol was filled each week. Content and constant comparative analysis yielded results about students’ oral argumentation. …”
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Forensic Entomology by Erika Andersen, Russell Mizell, Jessica Kochert, Joy Jordan

“…This curriculum is a tool for teaching youth grades 6–8 about the contributions that insects make to the world of forensics. This three-week series of lesson activities is designed for use in after-school programs, summer day camps, and 4-H clubs. …”
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Playing it safe? Staff and young people's views about play opportunities in residential care: practitioner review by Natasha Robinson

“…Indeed there was a sense of déja vu, as I heard some of the same comments echoed in my own unit in the last week. This contributed to the sense that the paper ‘rings true’ for me and I am sure it would also do so for the staff team at my place of work. …”

Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children by D Grant Gall

“…An initial period of total parenteral nutrition followed by a six to eight week course of enteral therapy with a semisynthetic diet has been shown to be effective in the management of patients with severe active disease and growth failure.…”
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Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Cervix in Pregnancy: A Case Report and Review by Linglan Pan, Renyan Liu, Xiujie Sheng, Dunjin Chen

“…Here we report a case in which a 27-year-old female patient presented at 34-week gestation with abnormal vaginal bleeding, underwent normal labor, and gave birth to a healthy neonate. …”
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First Described Case of Group B Streptococcus Pelvic Abscess in a Patient with No Medical Comorbidities by Paul Tyan, Elias Abi-Khalil, Karthik Dwarki, Gaby Moawad

“…Group B Streptococcus is an organism that commonly infects a wide range of hosts including infants in the first week of life, pregnant women, and older age adults as well as adults with underlying medical comorbidities. …”
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Eikenella corrodens Sepsis with Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis in a Very Low Birth Weight Neonate by Christopher Sawyer, Dimitrios Angelis, Robert Bennett

“…A 1000-gram male neonate was born at 27-week gestation due to preterm labor. The patient presented with signs and symptoms of sepsis and was treated for suspected meningitis with intravenous ampicillin and gentamicin for 7 days, with cefotaxime added for three weeks. …”
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L’éducation populaire et coopérative à l’épreuve du philosopher by Sylvain Connac

“…Classes experimenting the philosophy within a vast program, organized every week of the discursive exchanges of democratic shape around questions lifted by the children and treated through particular philosophic constraints. …”
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Management of a Retained Bullet in the Corpora Cavernosa after a Civilian Gunshot Injury: A Rare Scenario by Ali Abdel Raheem, Ibrahim Alowidah, Mohamed Almousa, Mohamed Alturki

“…Penile exploration was performed, the bullet was extracted successfully, and the corpora cavernosa were repaired properly. A 6-week follow-up showed full healing with preservation of erectile function. …”
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